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LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — The Las Cruces City Council has decided to implement the first phase of a stepped increase of the minimum wage in the southern New Mexico city, but it may then consider anew whether to have the next two steps take effect. According...

HOBBS, N.M. (AP) — Facing an oil boom that is putting a strain on keeping qualified staff from leaving for more lucrative jobs, a school district in southeastern New Mexico has reduced its advanced degree requirements for teachers. The Hobbs Municipal...

This image taken from video provided by NASA TV shows Orbital Sciences Corp.’s unmanned rocket blowing up over the launch complex at Wallops Island, Va., just six seconds after liftoff. The company says no one was believed to be hurt and the damage...

In this image taken from video, people welcome peshmerga soldiers as they arrive at the Ibrahim Khalil border entrance in Zakho, Iraq, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014. A group of Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga troops crossed the border from northern Iraq into Turkey early...

In this Oct. 8, 2014 photo, people walk to work on Wall Street beneath a statue of George Washington, in New York. U.S. stocks rose early Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014, as investors weighed earnings reports from several companies and awaited news from a two-day U.S....

FILE – In this Oct. 14, 2014 file photo, a man watches a TV news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un using a cane, reportedly during his first public appearance in five weeks in Pyongyang,...

This Oct. 26, 2014 photo provided by the U.S. Geological Survey a Hawaii Volcano Observatory geologist mapping the margin of the June 27 lava flow in the open field below Cemetery Road near the town of Pahoa on the Big Island of Hawaii. Dozens of residents in...

Police use a helicopter to look for two suspects after two people were shot in front of the Nash County courthouse in Nashville N.C. on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. A manhunt involving helicopters and dozens of armed officers patrolling a nearby highway was...

Chris Baldizan, left, vice president of entertainment for MGM Resorts and Luis Justo, CEO of Rock in Rio, attend the Rock in Rio USA sneak peak event at the site of the former Circus Circus RV Park on Monday, Oct. 27, 2014, in Las Vegas. The permanent...